Mark Stamp

• Spring 2013:
  
  • CS 166 Information Security
  • CS 265 Cryptography & Computer Security

• In 2011, the second edition of my textbook, Information Security: Principles and Practice was published. I'm told that the book makes a wonderful gift for any occasion (here's one satisfied customer). You can read the reviews at amazon.com and Rob Slade's review can be found here (Slade seems to have read and reviewed virtually every security book ever written). The book also topped the list of "most relevant" references for Ron Rivest's Computer and Network Security course at MIT (there is no required text).

• In 2007, I co-authored another textbook, Applied Cryptanalysis: Breaking Ciphers in the Real World, with Richard M. Low. As the title suggests, the book is focused on real-world ciphers and attacks that actually produce plaintext and break real systems. This eagerly anticipated book has been available to the general public since May 2007.

• What kinds of projects do my students do? I'm glad you asked. Most of my students do security-related projects and there are tons of good project topics in security.
  • Masters student projects (titles and completed reports) can be found here.
  • Undergraduate projects are given here.

• What kind of teacher am I? I've posted selected student comments from my teaching evaluations. Of course, you can also check out my reviews at My_Professor_Is_A_Jerk.com (or something like that). Personally, I never look at those kinds of sites, for fear of what I might find.

• Links to many of the papers that I've written are here. The Google Scholar summary of citations of my articles can be found here. Microsoft Academic provides similar (although, strangely, much less complete) information here.

• I've recently put together this list of information security journals, with a brief comment on each.

• Recently, I was interviewed about my malware-related research by the editor of a hackers' online e-zine. This scintillating, tell-all interview can be found at http://spth.virii.lu/intMarkStamp.txt (the link to the complete issue is http://spth.virii.lu/main.htm).

• My detailed cv can be found here.

• Yes, I do have a life (well, sort of...). A few relatively recent photos can be found here.

• The best way to contact me is via email. If you are local, feel free to stop by my office to chat.